“I need to commit to doing something different, and that doesn’t mean I’m not going to return to [Nine Inch Nails] at some point,” Reznor said in the interview.

“But I find myself pushed and pulled back into the same routine of album, tour, album, tour, album, tour, while a list of things I’d like to try and do in life sits untouched on the table.”

This comes after Reznor retired the band as a touring entity in 2009 with the “Wave Goodbye” tour. But the songwriter said at the time that he would most likely record music under the Nine Inch Nails name again.